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Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use.

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package org.apache.xerces.xni.grammars;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Locale;

import org.apache.xerces.xni.XNIException;
import org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLConfigurationException;
import org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLEntityResolver;
import org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLErrorHandler;
import org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource;

/**
 * The intention of this interface is to provide a generic means
 * by which Grammar objects may be created without parsing instance
 * documents.  Implementations of this interface will know how to load
 * specific types of grammars (e.g., DTD's or schemas); a wrapper
 * will be provided for user applications to interact with these implementations.
 * 
 * @author Neil Graham, IBM
 * @version $Id: XMLGrammarLoader.java 699892 2008-09-28 21:08:27Z mrglavas $
 */

public interface XMLGrammarLoader {

    /**
     * Returns a list of feature identifiers that are recognized by
     * this XMLGrammarLoader.  This method may return null if no features
     * are recognized.
     */
    public String[] getRecognizedFeatures();

    /**
     * Returns the state of a feature.
     * 
     * @param featureId The feature identifier.
     * 
     * @throws XMLConfigurationException Thrown on configuration error.
     */
    public boolean getFeature(String featureId) 
            throws XMLConfigurationException;

    /**
     * Sets the state of a feature. 
     *
     * @param featureId The feature identifier.
     * @param state     The state of the feature.
     *
     * @throws XMLConfigurationException Thrown when a feature is not
     *                  recognized or cannot be set.
     */
    public void setFeature(String featureId,
                boolean state) throws XMLConfigurationException;

    /**
     * Returns a list of property identifiers that are recognized by
     * this XMLGrammarLoader.  This method may return null if no properties
     * are recognized.
     */
    public String[] getRecognizedProperties();

    /**
     * Returns the state of a property.
     * 
     * @param propertyId The property identifier.
     * 
     * @throws XMLConfigurationException Thrown on configuration error.
     */
    public Object getProperty(String propertyId) 
            throws XMLConfigurationException;

    /**
     * Sets the state of a property. 
     * 
     * @param propertyId The property identifier.
     * @param state     The state of the property.
     *
     * @throws XMLConfigurationException Thrown when a property is not
     *                  recognized or cannot be set.
     */
    public void setProperty(String propertyId,
                Object state) throws XMLConfigurationException;

    /**
     * Set the locale to use for messages.
     *
     * @param locale The locale object to use for localization of messages.
     *
     * @exception XNIException Thrown if the parser does not support the
     *                         specified locale.
     */
    public void setLocale(Locale locale); 

    /** Return the Locale the XMLGrammarLoader is using. */
    public Locale getLocale();

    /**
     * Sets the error handler.
     *
     * @param errorHandler The error handler.
     */
    public void setErrorHandler(XMLErrorHandler errorHandler);

    /** Returns the registered error handler.  */
    public XMLErrorHandler getErrorHandler();

    /**
     * Sets the entity resolver.
     *
     * @param entityResolver The new entity resolver.
     */
    public void setEntityResolver(XMLEntityResolver entityResolver);

    /** Returns the registered entity resolver.  */
    public XMLEntityResolver getEntityResolver();

    /**
     * Returns a Grammar object by parsing the contents of the
     * entity pointed to by source.
     *
     * @param source        the location of the entity which forms
     *                          the starting point of the grammar to be constructed.
     * @throws IOException      When a problem is encountered reading the entity
     *          XNIException    When a condition arises (such as a FatalError) that requires parsing
     *                              of the entity be terminated.
     */
    public Grammar loadGrammar(XMLInputSource source)
        throws IOException, XNIException;
} // XMLGrammarLoader